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...unfair to single her out when Spacek and Wilkinson so gracefully manage most of the movie's heaviest lifting. But they have always been predictably expert actors. Tomei's career path is radically different. She came out of nowhere to win the supporting-actress Oscar, over more prestigious competitors, for her hilarious work in 1992's My Cousin Vinny. Then, and just as suddenly, she swooned into off-Broadway plays and smallish roles in obscure films, where she also gained a reputation as "difficult." Now she's back, and damned if people aren't talking Oscar nomination again...
...Dahdah cell under surveillance for at least four years. Yarkas took control of a radical group called the Soldiers of Allah in October 1995 when its former leader, Palestinian-born Anwar Saleh, known as Sheik Salah, suddenly left Madrid for Peshawar, Pakistan. There, according to French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard, Salah became a key talent scout for al-Qaeda, sending the most promising recruits on to a training camp near Jalalabad. Garzón alleges that Yarkas and his co-conspirators were on the move constantly to send recruits and, when possible, money to support al-Qaeda. Some...
...role played by American universities in helping the workers to acheive their goals. The pressure the universities put on their garment suppliers to enforce their codes of conduct forced the Mexican government to “open up its ears,” said Huberto Juarez Nunez, an expert on the development of export industries in Mexico...
Foreign policy expert Walter Russell Mead told a small group of students yesterday that while American foreign policy has often been flawed in theory, it has historically been successful in accomplishing its goals...
Many value public schools for their appreciation of tolerance and diversity, implying that private schools do not impart these civic ideals. In fact, private schools do promote civic virtues and are actually more integrated, diverse and tolerant than government schools. Education expert Jay Greene found that nearly twice as many private school students enjoyed racially mixed friend groups. The Latino National Political Survey found that Latino adults from private schools are much more tolerant overall, whereas those from public schools were significantly more likely to believe that gay activists should be denied political rights like running for office or holding...